How about a 'period' classics pictures thread
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Love the HAWK Pic Sad.
Re Minidom Top Tips. Running a mini in the early days was an education in itself. Our Mk1 NRE 965B has a plastic (or was it fiberglass) front. It needed the rad topping up daily and a new rad was on the list. After that servicing day,
Top Tip No3: Remember to (I forgot) to re connect the check straps/wire. At work the new wife released the flip bonnet and it dropped to the floor smashing both headlamps. Needless to say no nooky that night.
Top Tip No4: Cutting a packamac backed by cornflake packet to stem the cold air and water from the base of gear lever.(or so I thought)
I need some help from the mini experts here..
Top Tip No5: Emergency main fuse replacement. Which cigarette packet silver paper is the correct fuse rating? Woodbine, Park Drive or Players No 6?
Re Minidom Top Tips. Running a mini in the early days was an education in itself. Our Mk1 NRE 965B has a plastic (or was it fiberglass) front. It needed the rad topping up daily and a new rad was on the list. After that servicing day,
Top Tip No3: Remember to (I forgot) to re connect the check straps/wire. At work the new wife released the flip bonnet and it dropped to the floor smashing both headlamps. Needless to say no nooky that night.
Top Tip No4: Cutting a packamac backed by cornflake packet to stem the cold air and water from the base of gear lever.(or so I thought)
I need some help from the mini experts here..
Top Tip No5: Emergency main fuse replacement. Which cigarette packet silver paper is the correct fuse rating? Woodbine, Park Drive or Players No 6?
manorcom said:
Love the HAWK Pic Sad.
Re Minidom Top Tips. Running a mini in the early days was an education in itself. Our Mk1 NRE 965B has a plastic (or was it fiberglass) front. It needed the rad topping up daily and a new rad was on the list. After that servicing day,
Top Tip No3: Remember to (I forgot) to re connect the check straps/wire. At work the new wife released the flip bonnet and it dropped to the floor smashing both headlamps. Needless to say no nooky that night.
Top Tip No4: Cutting a packamac backed by cornflake packet to stem the cold air and water from the base of gear lever.(or so I thought)
I need some help from the mini experts here..
Top Tip No5: Emergency main fuse replacement. Which cigarette packet silver paper is the correct fuse rating? Woodbine, Park Drive or Players No 6?
Top Tip No.5 answer = John Player Special Re Minidom Top Tips. Running a mini in the early days was an education in itself. Our Mk1 NRE 965B has a plastic (or was it fiberglass) front. It needed the rad topping up daily and a new rad was on the list. After that servicing day,
Top Tip No3: Remember to (I forgot) to re connect the check straps/wire. At work the new wife released the flip bonnet and it dropped to the floor smashing both headlamps. Needless to say no nooky that night.
Top Tip No4: Cutting a packamac backed by cornflake packet to stem the cold air and water from the base of gear lever.(or so I thought)
I need some help from the mini experts here..
Top Tip No5: Emergency main fuse replacement. Which cigarette packet silver paper is the correct fuse rating? Woodbine, Park Drive or Players No 6?
Top Tip No.6 : to ensure easy access anywhere within the engine bay of a Mini, remember to halt your teenage 'growth spurt' at approximately 14 years of age. You know what they say about blokes with small hands... small driving gloves!
Top Tip No.7 : When you've broken down in the middle of the Cotswolds on New Year's Eve in a forty year old Rover P6, make your New Year's Resolution to leave the missus at home the next time it happens.
Top Tip No.8 : (care of a mate who sent me a text from the side of the A45 last week) Do not leave the radiator cap of your 1978 Avocado Green Rover SD1 resting on top of the battery whilst belting along the Queen's Highway at 70mph. They bounce quite well at that speed apparently.
Just found some more old Mini photos, will upload them later.
Minidom Top Tips. (Cont)
Top Tip no9: When you get married and drive away from the reception, check the exhaust manifold, under rear seat and behind fuel tank for foodstuffs especially fish. In '71 fixed my mates Mini on wedding day. He found the fish on manifold and under seat but never found the other. He sold mini months later because of the smell. Boy was he mad when he found out.
Tip Tip No10: Do NOT use two piles of bricks to support car during sub frame change. The car WILL fall on you. It did on me, luckily there were 2 mates present at the time.
Top Tip No11: No. You do not use a spirit level to balance twin carbs!
Top Tip no9: When you get married and drive away from the reception, check the exhaust manifold, under rear seat and behind fuel tank for foodstuffs especially fish. In '71 fixed my mates Mini on wedding day. He found the fish on manifold and under seat but never found the other. He sold mini months later because of the smell. Boy was he mad when he found out.
Tip Tip No10: Do NOT use two piles of bricks to support car during sub frame change. The car WILL fall on you. It did on me, luckily there were 2 mates present at the time.
Top Tip No11: No. You do not use a spirit level to balance twin carbs!
Edited by manorcom on Saturday 24th October 19:11
manorcom said:
Minidom Top Tips. (Cont)
Top Tip no9: When you get married and drive away from the reception, check the exhaust manifold, under rear seat and behind fuel tank for foodstuffs especially fish. In '71 fixed my mates Mini on wedding day. He found the fish on manifold and under seat but never found the other. He sold mini months later because of the smell. Boy was he mad when he found out.
Tip Tip No10: Do NOT use two piles of bricks to support car during sub frame change. The car WILL fall on you. It did on me, luckily there were 2 mates present at the time.
Top Tip No11: No. You do not use a spirit level to balance twin carbs!
Top Tip No12 : when the subframe goes on your mk1 mini do not weld it up with a length of something handy lying around and then part ex it at a garage you then accept a job at 6 months later - you WILL be recognised by a very p+ssed off salesman (courtesy JS68 senior)Top Tip no9: When you get married and drive away from the reception, check the exhaust manifold, under rear seat and behind fuel tank for foodstuffs especially fish. In '71 fixed my mates Mini on wedding day. He found the fish on manifold and under seat but never found the other. He sold mini months later because of the smell. Boy was he mad when he found out.
Tip Tip No10: Do NOT use two piles of bricks to support car during sub frame change. The car WILL fall on you. It did on me, luckily there were 2 mates present at the time.
Top Tip No11: No. You do not use a spirit level to balance twin carbs!
Edited by manorcom on Saturday 24th October 19:11
manorcom said:
In the meantime at work we buy a D reg Bedford (Suzuki) Rascal. Which I survive a head on crash with and is replaced with a brand new one:
These photos bring back some memories, I used to ride my BMX past Manor Plant Hire in the mid 80s, I lived nearby on the 'old' Chester Road by the Castle Stores!manorcom said:
Minidom Top Tips. (Cont)
Top Tip no9: When you get married and drive away from the reception, check the exhaust manifold, under rear seat and behind fuel tank for foodstuffs especially fish. In '71 fixed my mates Mini on wedding day. He found the fish on manifold and under seat but never found the other. He sold mini months later because of the smell. Boy was he mad when he found out.
Tip Tip No10: Do NOT use two piles of bricks to support car during sub frame change. The car WILL fall on you. It did on me, luckily there were 2 mates present at the time.
Top Tip No11: No. You do not use a spirit level to balance twin carbs!
Addition to Top Tip no9:When leaving your wedding reception on a chilly afternoon in 1976 with a 100 mile drive to Suffolk in the pouring rain, remove radiator grille of your 1966 Austin Mini, remove plastic mesh from end of heater inlet pipe and check for kipper. Or not. Thanks Geoff...Top Tip no9: When you get married and drive away from the reception, check the exhaust manifold, under rear seat and behind fuel tank for foodstuffs especially fish. In '71 fixed my mates Mini on wedding day. He found the fish on manifold and under seat but never found the other. He sold mini months later because of the smell. Boy was he mad when he found out.
Tip Tip No10: Do NOT use two piles of bricks to support car during sub frame change. The car WILL fall on you. It did on me, luckily there were 2 mates present at the time.
Top Tip No11: No. You do not use a spirit level to balance twin carbs!
Edited by manorcom on Saturday 24th October 19:11
Minidom Top Tips (Cont II)
Top Tip No12: Converting to Cooper: Remove air cleaner (great sound), remove hubcaps, fit Hednesford Hills Raceway sticker to rear window.
Top Tip No13: Converting to Cooper S: Fit wheel spacers, add spotlights to front, add spotlight to rear, fit steering column lowering bracket,
Top Tip No14: Converting to Rally Cooper: Fit wheel spats with wider wheels, add more spotlights, fit rev counter, add STP & other stickers to exterior.
Top Tip No15: Converting to Rally Cooper S: All of the above, add spotlight to middle of roof PLUS fit genuine Cooper S Badge to rear boot lid....Job done.
Top Tip No12: Converting to Cooper: Remove air cleaner (great sound), remove hubcaps, fit Hednesford Hills Raceway sticker to rear window.
Top Tip No13: Converting to Cooper S: Fit wheel spacers, add spotlights to front, add spotlight to rear, fit steering column lowering bracket,
Top Tip No14: Converting to Rally Cooper: Fit wheel spats with wider wheels, add more spotlights, fit rev counter, add STP & other stickers to exterior.
Top Tip No15: Converting to Rally Cooper S: All of the above, add spotlight to middle of roof PLUS fit genuine Cooper S Badge to rear boot lid....Job done.
Argybargy said:
Kitchski said:
gweaver said:
williamp said:
some supermarket car park images (don't ask why I found the first one, but it gave me an idea)
1980:
That's a lot more colourful than the sea of silver, grey and blue (and now white) that you'll see in most supermarket car parks now :-(1980:
About half of those are still RWD too.
FairfieldSteve said:
Kitchski said:
Me reaching into the back end of the car that kick-started my obsession with cars, parked up in Bishop's Lydeard station car park on the West Somerset Railway. That picture was probably taken less than a year or two before a nurse in a mk4 Escort drove into the back of it at about 30mph on the M271. That happened in Oct 1994, so I'm guessing this could be July '94 or possibly 1993. Or even 1992 - if I was wearing a football shirt it'd be easier to date!
That car had such an impact on me that I wonder how I'd be different if the milkfloat that pulled out on my Dad's Opel Kadett in 1988 hadn't done so. The Kadett would have stayed longer, and the whole love affair with the slightly left-field French hatchback may never have kicked off. A BX of that spec/colour and vintage (the first 6months of R.H.D BX production) is a very rare beast these days. So rare that your chances of finding one are slim to nil.
So when I managed to acquire this for free, completely by accident last year, I couldn't be happier!
I want it on the road for next year, but there's ALOT of work to do. My aim is to travel round the places I used to go to as a kid in it
Edited by Kitchski on Friday 23 October 09:32
You've brought back good memories and some dust to my eye, thank you mate.
Kitchski said:
FairfieldSteve said:
Kitchski said:
Me reaching into the back end of the car that kick-started my obsession with cars, parked up in Bishop's Lydeard station car park on the West Somerset Railway. That picture was probably taken less than a year or two before a nurse in a mk4 Escort drove into the back of it at about 30mph on the M271. That happened in Oct 1994, so I'm guessing this could be July '94 or possibly 1993. Or even 1992 - if I was wearing a football shirt it'd be easier to date!
That car had such an impact on me that I wonder how I'd be different if the milkfloat that pulled out on my Dad's Opel Kadett in 1988 hadn't done so. The Kadett would have stayed longer, and the whole love affair with the slightly left-field French hatchback may never have kicked off. A BX of that spec/colour and vintage (the first 6months of R.H.D BX production) is a very rare beast these days. So rare that your chances of finding one are slim to nil.
So when I managed to acquire this for free, completely by accident last year, I couldn't be happier!
I want it on the road for next year, but there's ALOT of work to do. My aim is to travel round the places I used to go to as a kid in it
Edited by Kitchski on Friday 23 October 09:32
You've brought back good memories and some dust to my eye, thank you mate.
I had a White Mk1 16TRS and an H plate 16v in black.
My Dad had a pair of diesels too.
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